The company behind the new fig leaf is in Las Vegas, Nevada-dubbed “Rocky Flats Gear”-swears its technology is comfortable. No word on how comfortable the "fig leaf" underwear truly are, or whether they’ll “go the distance”-like that mileage required during a 13-hour flight. The new underwear are designed to battle the recently-instituted backscatter "naked scanners" now being utilized by hundreds of airports throughout the nation-with another 50 of the enhanced scanners slated to enter nationwide airports by the end of the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday seasons.
Jeff Buske says his “fig leaf” underwear invention use a powdered metal-the goal: to protects travelers’ privacy and privates, for those undergoing medical or security screenings performed by TSA workers at airports. The inventor of the new fig leaf protective undies is betting on his idea behind the new mens’ and womens’ “intimates”: metal. The most controversial womens' "fig leaf" underwear model-the one the media isn't talking about with all of the controversy-includes convenient placement of hands around that "leaf".Īfter all the recent hoopla over “junk”-and the San Diego Airport video that went viral in November after an engineer told a TSA agent he’d sue him if the agent touched his “junk”-entrepreneurialism shines. The new, special “underwear” sport a strategically placed fig leaf-which a guy in Colorado is apparently hoping will continue to get travelers through TSA security unscathed. With some luck for frequent flyers, the “fig” might get travelers through the TSA airport "naked scans" during Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays-before any possible TSA agency ban on the mens' and womens' intimates.Ī fig leaf has proved popular for many a years-with new, enhanced "naked scans" and backscatter x-ray technology, the leaf just might make a comeback. The show is sponsored, fittingly, by UK lingerie-makers Agent Provocateur and cosmetics firm Revlon.No word on whether TSA plans to ban the new “fig leaf” underwear-designed to block that "junk" and privates at airports currently being displayed in images of new "naked scans". Who knew Juicy Couture tracksuits and Calvin Klein crop tops could be traced back to a Paul Poiret evening tunic? While underwear by definition is covered up, designers of informal loungewear have long blurred the lines between private and public.
As well as the spectacularly impractical: a series of stereoscopic images document the hazards of wearing crinolines. The development of the corset’s 20th-century successor, the bra, is also on display, with an early lace and satin bodice from 1910 and a 1990s push-up bra.įrom the robust support of latex and Spanx to the sensual fabrics of silk chiffon and lace, the show presents both the functional and luxurious sides of underclothes. Yet doctors also prescribed corsets to treat medical conditions and improve posture. Undressed: a Brief History of Underwear, which opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Saturday, exposes the origins and evolution of fashion’s usually hidden garments: crinolines, corsets, bras, knickers, boxers, stockings and tights.Īmong the more than 200 items on show are cotton drawers worn by Queen Victoria’s mother, a First World War austerity corset in paper and a pair of Vivienne Westwood flesh-coloured leggings with a strategically-placed mirrored fig leaf (similar to those she donned in 1990 to protest staff cuts at the nearby Natural History Museum).įrom the home-made “stays” of a working 18th-century Englishwoman to the contemporary lingerie designs of Stella McCartney and La Perla, Undressed also aims to draw on bigger themes, such as gender, morality, health and technical innovation, from the history of our “smalls”.Īn 1890s whalebone corset with a waist measuring less than 19 inches is paired with X-rays and illustrations revealing the effects of such tight lacing on the wearer.